The RoanokeSlant

This file is a personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.com .......The Google Cookie Notice is required by the EU! So much for US Sovereignty!

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

More Media Memos

Roanoke Times, 6/21/05, Pg Va 6: Media credibility, already eroded, would not have been served by rushing stories without verifying the authenticity of the Downing Street memos. But the memos' authenticity, while unrefuted so far by either President Bush or British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has not been confirmed. The reporter who obtained them says he destroyed the originals after retyping them, making authentication problematic.--The media certainly has given this story and these memos big-time coverage and has not made any attempt to discount their validity. (Kudos to The Editor for at least pointing out some of the facts concerning these documents in his article.).-Given the sources story, why is this being discussed as "news" anywhere? If there's a story here, it's that we have yet another "news source" cooking up "evidence" to support a supposition that he and his associates want to prove so bad they can taste it!-Perhaps I can help add to the plot: Bush and Blair certainly should have been working on war plans for more than a year before the invasion. Based on the 18 UN resolutions it was clear, to even the most casual observer, that direct action would be required to get "The butcher of Bagdad" out of power.But let's go farther: based on what we know today, we should have detailed plans to take-out the nuclear facilities in Iran and North Korea. If our government doesn't have those detailed plans in-place now -- somebody should be fired!-Prior North Korea blog item:http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/north-korean-nukes.html--